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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Sound vaguely familiar?

Here's the latest on the San Diego municipal finance fiasco. Lots of trouble down there, stemming from the city's pension fund, sewer billing, and lack of transparency in financial reporting. But hey, they have lots of pretty, shiny, new condo towers downtown. Light rail and trolleys, too.

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I don't know the whole story but when visiting San Diego my family members who lived there told me that the condos in Downtown San Diego didn't receive subsidy beyond the standard zoning allowances required to build them.

Across the US in major cities condo towers are going up and being sold way above the standard square footage value of a house. Looks to me that all this proves is that Portland's pride in selling condos is a little overstated.

"Continuing a slowdown that has persisted throughout the year, sales of single-family houses last month plunged 31 percent from July 2005 and sales of condominiums fell 28 percent during the same time period, according to a report released Wednesday by the North San Diego County Association of Realtors."

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